The Canary's Song

The Canary's Song is a touching fictional depiction of Mary Stuart's final day in a Mississippi nursing home.

Mary has been painfully confined to a wheelchair and living in a nursing home for several years. With no family to visit her and her savings running out, she faces the difficult decision of choosing between transferring to a poorly run State funded nursing home and electing euthanasia. Her poorly educated, yet compassionate primary care nurse, strongly encourages Mary to live out her final days. Additionally, Mary makes an unexpected new friend whose life direction she alters in her final hours. Given the developments of the day, will Mary follow through with her plans?

The Canary's Song will touch anyone who has witnessed the decline of health and fortune of a loved one due to age and protracted illness. What Mary desires cannot be judged in simple terms of right or wrong. The story conveys the complexity of the issue and shines a bright light upon the choices we can and cannot make in our final stage of life.